Welcome back, Herbie!
Say hello to the newest Herbie the bobblehead, the first after a five-year hiatus and the eighth since the festival began producing Herbie dolls in 2002. The newest model sports a raspberry-colored Hawaiian shirt with small white garlic cloves on it, khaki shorts and blue sandals. The Herbie doll costs $20 and can be purchased at the festival’s mercantile, which will have two locations: One on the ranch side, and one on the park side of Christmas Hill Park.
Santa Clara County joins suit to stop Prop 8
Santa Clara County announced that it will join San Francisco and
Possible changes to Open Space Credit Policy bad news for farmers
Agricultural water charges in South Santa Clara County are one-tenth of what everyone else pays, thanks to the Open Space Credit Policy implemented in 1991 - and farmers say they want it to stay that way.
Sargent Ranch on auction block July 26
A new development in the twisted saga for the battle over Sargent Ranch - vast expanse of undulating hills, pristine streams, unsullied wildlife habitats and unincorporated farmland just south of Gilroy - popped up last week in a Santa Cruz Sentinel legal notice alerting the public to a foreclosure auction slated later this month.
